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roadblocked

verb

past tense of roadblock
as in blocked

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  1. blocked
  2. barricaded
  3. delayed
  4. blockaded
  5. arrested
  6. mired
  7. retained
  8. bound
Verb
  • And Majority Leader John Thune still could hold a roll-call vote on a data center power bill that Democrats blocked on Thursday.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Hundreds of oil trucks were stranded when protesters blocked a highway.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of blocked
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  • The airport had been barricaded, and the NTSB investigators had to show badges to police officers with long guns to pass through.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The shooting prompted a major law enforcement response on nearby Highway 50, where a vehicle was stopped and a person was reportedly barricaded inside, officials said.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of barricaded
Verb
  • Left unhandled, each one turns into a person fixing an issue or an order getting delayed.
    — Shivansh Inamdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Despite rising infant deaths tied to Lucy Letby’s shifts, hospital leaders delayed suspending her and calling police, allowing further attacks before her eventual arrest and conviction.
    — Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of delayed
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  • During what became known as the Timber Wars of the late 1980s and 1990s, activists occupied giant redwoods, chained themselves to logging equipment and blockaded roads across California, Oregon and Washington.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • France About 50 fishermen blockaded a major fuel depot in the coastal southern French town of Fos-sur-Mer on Tuesday, in part to protest rising fuel prices, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
    — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of blockaded
Verb
  • Badio, considered a key suspect, was arrested in Haiti in October 2023 after being on the run for more than two years.
    — EVENS SANON, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • And like him, the vast majority of those arrested during the blitz had no criminal record.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of arrested
Verb
  • The singer's ongoing Loop Tour is mired in chaos after four supporting acts quit in solidarity with rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The Dodgers trudged toward October by clinching their 13th National League West title in 14 years on Thursday, their customary march mired in a quicksand of questions.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of mired
Verb
  • Tallman — who has retained an attorney and is researching his litigation options against Sanders and Drastic Measures — is still in the industry as well.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Over the last four cycles, the Olympic roster has retained about 70 percent of the previous World Cup roster, but that doesn’t take into account some last-minute changes and unexpected injuries so the true retention rate is even a bit higher.
    — Chantel Jennings, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of retained
Verb
  • An advisory remains in place for an area roughly bounded by Las Palomas Drive on the west and West Skyline Drive on the east.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of bound
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